Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna sharing from Luke chapter seven today in our
Speaker 2: fourth installment of the series. I know that voice, I
Speaker 2: know a name, and I know that voice. It's been
Speaker 2: my aim through the series not to teach you so
Speaker 2: much systematically, like three steps to hear from God or
Speaker 2: seven steps to hear from God, because I figure God
Speaker 2: is way bigger than seven steps. One time in the Bible,
Speaker 2: God spoke through a donkey. So I figure if we
Speaker 2: start listing all the ways that God could speak, we'd be.
Speaker 1: Here too long, we would miss lunch.
Speaker 2: So what I'm endeavoring to do instead is just give
Speaker 2: you some pictures from the Scripture of the Times when
Speaker 2: the Lord spoke, and then as we paint that picture,
Speaker 2: hopefully you will see specifically something that God is speaking
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: How many have felt God.
Speaker 2: Speaking to you in the last few weeks as we've
Speaker 2: been journeying through.
Speaker 1: His word together. Now, in Luke chapter seven, I'm going.
Speaker 2: To read two stories. The first one I'm not going
Speaker 2: to preach on, but it will be so helpful for
Speaker 2: us to understand. The second one in Luke chapter seven,
Speaker 2: verse eleven.
Speaker 1: Luke seven eleven.
Speaker 2: That was easy for me to remember where to start today,
Speaker 2: the Bible says. Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town
Speaker 2: called Nane after his disciples, and a large crowd went
Speaker 2: along with him. As he approached the town gate, a
Speaker 2: dead person was being carried out, the only son of
Speaker 2: his mother, and she was a widow, and a large
Speaker 2: crowd from the town was with her.
Speaker 1: Saw her.
Speaker 2: His heart went out to her, and he said, don't cry.
Speaker 2: Then he went up and touched the beer they were
Speaker 2: carrying him on, and.
Speaker 1: The bearers stood still.
Speaker 2: He said, young man, I say to you, get up
Speaker 2: and watch this verse fifteen. The dead man sat up.
Speaker 2: Even a body that isn't breathing knows that voice, I said,
Speaker 2: Even a body that has ceased breathing knows that voice.
Speaker 2: Don't even have a pulse, but I know that voice
Speaker 2: being carried out of the gate. And then the Bible
Speaker 2: says he sat up and began to talk, and Jesus
Speaker 2: was talking. And then he was talking, and Jesus gave
Speaker 2: him back to his mother. They were all filled with
Speaker 2: awe and praised God. A great prophet has appeared among us,
Speaker 2: They said, God has come to help his people. This
Speaker 2: news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.
Speaker 2: Remember that isn't the story I want to preach about.
Speaker 2: Here's what I want to talk about today. Verse eighteen.
Speaker 2: John's disciples told him about all these things. Calling two
Speaker 2: of them, he sent them to the Lord to ask,
Speaker 2: are you the one who is to come? Or should
Speaker 2: we expect someone else? What kind of crazy question is that?
Speaker 1: You just heard that he.
Speaker 2: Raised somebody from the dead and you want to know
Speaker 2: are you really who you claim to be?
Speaker 1: Crazy?
Speaker 2: What kind of crazy question to ask from John of
Speaker 2: all people, John the Baptist. I can understand Mark the Methodist,
Speaker 2: Earnie the Episcopalian, But this is John the Baptist talking
Speaker 2: about are you the one? Or should we expect someone else?
Speaker 2: Verse twenty. Is funny to me when the men that
Speaker 2: John sent. When they came to Jesus, they said, John
Speaker 2: the Baptist sent us to.
Speaker 1: Ask you get it? Are you the one? Like we
Speaker 1: totally believe?
Speaker 2: But John just wanted to know. John just wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Are you the one who is to come? Or should
Speaker 2: we expect someone else? At that very time, Jesus cured
Speaker 2: many who had diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and gave
Speaker 2: sight to many who were blind. So he replied to
Speaker 2: the messengers, go back and report to John what you
Speaker 2: have seen and heard. The blind received site the lame walk,
Speaker 2: those who have leprosy are cleansed the death. Here the
Speaker 2: dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to
Speaker 2: the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on
Speaker 2: account of me. We're going to go back to that
Speaker 2: verse nineteen for our message today. Are you the one
Speaker 2: who is to come? Or should we expect someone else?
Speaker 2: The title of my message today is a question, what
Speaker 2: if I got it wrong?
Speaker 1: You ever wondered that before? What if I got it wrong?
Speaker 2: I know you can't nod too much because you came
Speaker 2: to church with them, But what if.
Speaker 1: And you drove to church in it and the salesman
Speaker 1: told you it was a good deal. But what if
Speaker 1: I got it wrong. We're going to talk about it today. Father.
Speaker 2: I know what you spoke to me, but I asked God,
Speaker 2: would you use me to speak it to them? I
Speaker 2: would be so honored if you would use me.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 2: So here's my voice box, here's my mind. Everything I
Speaker 2: got is yours. Lord, use me in their life, because
Speaker 2: you know what they need. In Jesus' name, Amen, you
Speaker 2: may be seated. Since my oldest son, Elijah has been
Speaker 2: home now from college for a year, we can reminisce
Speaker 2: on when we went to college without having too much trauma,
Speaker 2: and when he went to college. I had this very
Speaker 2: vivid memory of me sitting in the passenger seat as
Speaker 2: we drove to Lynchburg, Virginia, where I was going to
Speaker 2: drop him off at college. I don't know if anybody
Speaker 2: in this room today is going to college over the
Speaker 2: next few days or the next few weeks, or if
Speaker 2: he planned to go to college at a future time
Speaker 2: in your life. I don't know if anybody in this
Speaker 2: room is questioning that decision or not.
Speaker 1: But I could just feel how heavy he was.
Speaker 2: As Charlotte got farther and farther behind, and Lynchburg got
Speaker 2: closer and closer.
Speaker 1: He was thinking, what if I got it wrong.
Speaker 2: I could tell, not by anything he said. I could
Speaker 2: just tell by how quiet he got. I mean, first
Speaker 2: I was playing John Mayer in the car to try
Speaker 2: to cheer him up. Then I even switched over and
Speaker 2: played some music that I hated. I even resorted to
Speaker 2: playing his playlist in the car. But I still couldn't
Speaker 2: get him to smile. And I could tell what he
Speaker 2: was thinking. I'd never been this far away from home
Speaker 2: for I tried to make the best decision that I could.
Speaker 2: I know it's a good school, and I'm going there,
Speaker 2: and I know my girlfriend is going to be there,
Speaker 2: and the best I can un vote what if I
Speaker 2: got what if this is terrible? What if I make
Speaker 2: no friends?
Speaker 1: Now? The interesting thing about that is, and of course
Speaker 1: that he was thinking that. Of course you.
Speaker 2: Think that when you're going off to college, leaving home
Speaker 2: for the first time. What he didn't know is that
Speaker 2: I was in the see thinking the same thing right
Speaker 2: next to him, Not what if you got it wrong?
Speaker 2: Not what if you shouldn't go to college here? Because
Speaker 2: to me, I'm just like, then we'll drop out. You know,
Speaker 2: this is not life or death. I hope we got
Speaker 2: it right, but we can we can fix that. What
Speaker 2: I was thinking more about is like, what if I
Speaker 2: got it wrong raising you? Like what if I didn't
Speaker 2: do enough? What I did the best I could as
Speaker 2: a dad. But this is my test run.
Speaker 1: You are my lab rat. What if I got it wrong?
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that when you have your first.
Speaker 2: Child, you should set up not only a college fund,
Speaker 2: but a therapy fund for all the mistakes that you
Speaker 2: will make on them.
Speaker 1: That you will correct before you raise the other kids.
Speaker 2: So your firstborn gets an extra savings account. And I'm
Speaker 2: thinking in the passenger seat, did I do it right?
Speaker 2: I mean, I did the best job I could as
Speaker 2: a dad. I tried to be at every baseball game.
Speaker 2: I tried not to push him too hard. But did
Speaker 2: I push him hard enough? What if I got it wrong?
Speaker 2: What if I coddled him too much? What if I
Speaker 2: didn't comfort him enough? What if I was too soft?
Speaker 2: What if I was too strict? It's this ping pong
Speaker 2: possibilities and potentials of pain that I might have caused him,
Speaker 2: and mistakes that I may have made that I may
Speaker 2: not even be aware of even doing my best. What
Speaker 2: if I got it wrong Because this is my first rodeo,
Speaker 2: I have no idea how to raise one up, and
Speaker 2: I have no idea how to send one off. And
Speaker 2: I have never shipped this product into the world before.
Speaker 1: So what if I traumatize you and didn't know it.
Speaker 2: What if your friends one day in college are going fishing,
Speaker 2: and because I never taught you to fish, you.
Speaker 1: Don't have any friends.
Speaker 2: And what if because you don't have any friends, you
Speaker 2: lock yourself in your dorm room and refuse to eat.
Speaker 2: And what if they call me and say you've got to.
Speaker 1: Come get your son. Your mind can spiral pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: And I'm being silly, but not by much, because once
Speaker 2: this question starts in your mind, you know.
Speaker 1: Exactly what I'm talking about. What if I got it wrong?
Speaker 2: What if I started the business thinking I was stepping
Speaker 2: out on faith but.
Speaker 1: It was really foolishness.
Speaker 2: The ones that really get you on the inside aren't
Speaker 2: just What if I got it wrong and it's going
Speaker 2: to cost me? But what if I got it wrong
Speaker 2: and I'm dragging others along in the wake of my decision,
Speaker 2: and I just thought I was kind of poetic, you know,
Speaker 2: with somebody maybe watching this go into college, or maybe
Speaker 2: sending somebody off to college, or maybe getting married or
Speaker 2: just got miss married, or just got pregnant, or just
Speaker 2: welcome to third child into the world, or just bought
Speaker 2: a new house, or just downsized or just upsized or
Speaker 2: just right sized. Man, I.
Speaker 1: Think we could afford. But what if I got it wrong?
Speaker 2: Because there is no Bible verse that tells me how
Speaker 2: much my monthly payment should be. There's Dave Ramsey, and
Speaker 2: he's kind of a prophet, but I didn't find the
Speaker 2: exact verse to tell.
Speaker 1: Me the specificity of the decision.
Speaker 2: So you've got Elijah driving to college going what if
Speaker 2: I got it wrong? And me sitting next to him
Speaker 2: going what if I got it wrong? And he's going
Speaker 2: what if I'm not ready? And I'm sitting next to
Speaker 2: him going what if you're not ready? Because I think
Speaker 2: it was my job to get you ready? But how
Speaker 2: do I know if you're ready? Because I've never done
Speaker 2: this before. How many feel this in an area of
Speaker 2: your life?
Speaker 1: Right now? Come on, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sharing my personal baggage up.
Speaker 1: Here with y'all. I could use a little backup.
Speaker 2: What if I got it I thought I was supposed
Speaker 2: to quit that job in faith, to step out for
Speaker 2: something new, but they haven't exactly been lining up with
Speaker 2: offers from other jobs.
Speaker 1: What if I got it wrong?
Speaker 2: What if I just quit because I was frustrated, not
Speaker 2: because I had faith. What if I got it wrong.
Speaker 2: It's a humble question. Some people think that you should
Speaker 2: never ask that question. You should always be confident. And
Speaker 2: those people are confidently wrong. Even when they are wrong,
Speaker 2: they are never in doubt. And by the way, most
Speaker 2: of the sermons that I've heard in church about doubt
Speaker 2: only have one point. You. Ready write this down. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about doubt today. Ready write this down.
Speaker 2: Don't don't do it. The Bible says, don't do it.
Speaker 2: God's been good to you.
Speaker 1: How could you doubt him? Now? You can't make me
Speaker 1: doubt him. I know too much about him. That rhymes,
Speaker 1: but it's not very real.
Speaker 2: Because if you never have any questions about the God
Speaker 2: you encounter in the pages of scripture, you are cherry picking.
Speaker 2: There's some stuff in here that will spin you around
Speaker 2: so quick. You'll be so busy talking about did I
Speaker 2: really just read that?
Speaker 1: Did that really just say that? Can I really do
Speaker 1: that can. I really believe that.
Speaker 2: In the scripture that I read you in Luke chapter seven,
Speaker 2: it's interesting because the person who is doubting is not
Speaker 2: one of.
Speaker 1: The twelve Disciples.
Speaker 2: Instead, we find a person who actually had a job
Speaker 2: that proceeded and in some ways was priority above the
Speaker 2: twelve disciples. See the twelve Disciples that you read about, Matthew, Luke.
Speaker 1: You know all these guys that you read about, Peter
Speaker 1: and Andrew. Those guys read about, they follow Jesus.
Speaker 2: This character came before Jesus. In fact, the Bible calls
Speaker 2: him a voice in the wilderness we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 2: Voice before the voice of Jesus spoke. The voice of
Speaker 2: John spoke. And here's what he said.
Speaker 1: Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight the crooked path.
Speaker 2: In fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. He came declaring repent for
Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Speaker 1: That was John. It was John.
Speaker 2: You may remember who baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. John's voice was powerful.
Speaker 2: He would stand out and preach with no microphone, no
Speaker 2: pa system, no screens, support. Nobody really to give him
Speaker 2: an amen, because what he was preaching was so controversial
Speaker 2: it challenged their lifestyle. And as he preached repent for
Speaker 2: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, the people would
Speaker 2: stream out into the wilderness, into the desert to be
Speaker 2: baptized by John. Imagine his shock when Jesus, the one
Speaker 2: who his voice was meant to herald into the earth
Speaker 2: as a human, when Jesus showed up to be baptized
Speaker 2: by John. Let's look at that for a moment in
Speaker 2: Matthew chapter three, before we go any further. When Jesus
Speaker 2: came to be baptized by John, he was already busy
Speaker 2: baptizing others. And in Matthew three, verse eleven, John said,
Speaker 2: I baptize.
Speaker 1: You with water for repentance.
Speaker 2: But after me comes one who is more powerful than I,
Speaker 2: whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.
Speaker 1: He talking about Jesus.
Speaker 2: Will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His
Speaker 2: winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear
Speaker 2: his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and
Speaker 2: burning up the chap with unquenchable fire. Then Jesus came
Speaker 2: from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
Speaker 2: How can he who had no sin be washed in
Speaker 2: the water for the remis of sin. That's what John
Speaker 2: is wondering. But John tried to deter him verse fourteen,
Speaker 2: saying I need to be baptized by you, and do
Speaker 2: you come to me.
Speaker 1: Jesus replied, let it be so.
Speaker 2: Now it is proper for us to do this to
Speaker 2: fulfill all righteousness. Jesus was not being baptized.
Speaker 1: So that his sin could be washed away. He was
Speaker 1: being baptized so that yours could.
Speaker 2: In other words, he's perfectly fulfilling all of the righteous
Speaker 2: requirements because he knows that we can't. Then John consented,
Speaker 2: and as soon verse sixteen, as Jesus was baptized, he
Speaker 2: went up out of the water. At that moment, heaven
Speaker 2: was open. At that moment, Heaven was open, and he
Speaker 2: saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and
Speaker 2: alighting on him, and a voice, a voice from heaven,
Speaker 2: the voice of the Father from heaven with the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: a lighting.
Speaker 1: A voice from heaven.
Speaker 2: Said this, Jesus, this is my son whom I.
Speaker 1: Love with him, I am well pleased. John heard it.
Speaker 1: John heard it in the Jordan.
Speaker 2: He heard the affirmation, I mean you talk about confirmation.
Speaker 1: Affirmation knowing it's.
Speaker 2: God, John heard a voice from heaven saying this is
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 1: So how In Luke chapter.
Speaker 2: Seven, verse eighteen and nineteen is John calling his disciples. Remember,
Speaker 2: John sent his disciples away to follow Jesus.
Speaker 1: When he saw Jesus.
Speaker 2: He said, look, the lamb of God who takes away
Speaker 2: the sin of the world. I'm not worthy to carry
Speaker 2: his sneakers. I can't carry his flip flops. Follow him,
Speaker 2: and they did so. Not only was John certain, but
Speaker 2: he was sacrificial. He gave up the ministry that he
Speaker 2: had so that Jesus could have the ministry that he couldn't.
Speaker 2: The Bible says that John calls two of his disciples
Speaker 2: and sent them to ask the Lord, are you the
Speaker 2: one who is to come?
Speaker 1: Or should we expect someone else.
Speaker 2: I could understand this question if he had just received
Speaker 2: reports that Jesus was taking long naps and teaching boring lectures.
Speaker 2: But remember what we read right before this.
Speaker 1: The disciples just saw Jesus raise a boy from the dead. John,
Speaker 1: it was amazing.
Speaker 2: Jesus walked right up to his beer and touched it.
Speaker 2: And when he touched the stretcher, he said get out,
Speaker 2: and the kid just sat up and Jesus handed him
Speaker 2: back to it.
Speaker 1: Jesus just ruined a funeral.
Speaker 2: John, They were having a perfectly good funeral. They were
Speaker 2: about to bury that boy, and Jesus said, you won't
Speaker 2: need this great plot today.
Speaker 1: You can save for later. But not today.
Speaker 2: Tell somebody, not today, not today, Not today, Not today,
Speaker 2: Because when Jesus speaks, resurrection happens because dead things come alive.
Speaker 1: Dead things come alive. I know a name, I know
Speaker 1: a name. I know a name, I.
Speaker 4: Know a name.
Speaker 1: I can do a run.
Speaker 2: I know a name that if he speaks to a grave,
Speaker 2: it'll be empty by the time he gets dounned saying it.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. He just raised somebody from
Speaker 2: the grave. And John said, that's interesting. Go ask him,
Speaker 2: are you the one?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Do you understand my confusion at the text. How can
Speaker 2: he be so confused when Jesus's identity is so clear.
Speaker 2: This is where I'm glad that we have four gospel
Speaker 2: accounts Matthew, Mark, Luke.
Speaker 1: And John. John. Wasn't written by John the Baptist.
Speaker 2: It was written by the humble Disciple, the one who
Speaker 2: said he was the one Jesus loved. Luke, of course,
Speaker 2: was written by a physician who also wrote the Book
Speaker 2: of Acts. Mark was written as an action gospel from
Speaker 2: Simon Peter's memory, but Matthew was written with some details
Speaker 2: that the others left out.
Speaker 1: See when you read Luke.
Speaker 2: Chapter seven, it says John's disciples told him about all
Speaker 2: these things and calling two of them he had questions,
Speaker 2: he had confusions, and yes, one of the most powerful
Speaker 2: men in scripture had doubts, doubt, doubt. I need to
Speaker 2: say this every couple months just to make sure you
Speaker 2: know if you have doubts and come to this church, we.
Speaker 1: Won't kick you out.
Speaker 2: In some churches, they will make you feel like you
Speaker 2: don't belong if you're having trouble believing.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: I definitely don't understand it because I know how much
Speaker 2: doubt there is out there that people are just pressing
Speaker 2: down and not talking about. The number one rule in
Speaker 2: churches don't have doubt. And number two rule is if
Speaker 2: you do, don't say it out loud. But the number
Speaker 2: one rule in this church is bring it to Jesus.
Speaker 2: Bring it to Jesus. Can we give John a hand?
Speaker 2: Can we give him a hand. Instead of judging John
Speaker 2: that he had doubts. Notice what he did, Luke, Chapter seven,
Speaker 2: verse nineteen. He sent them to the Lord to ask. See,
Speaker 2: that's all you've really got to do with your doubts.
Speaker 2: You don't try to press them down or get them out,
Speaker 2: or shake them out or PRAYM will just take.
Speaker 1: Them to the Lord. Tech somebody say, take it to
Speaker 1: the Lord.
Speaker 2: Take it to the Lord is so important in times
Speaker 2: of doubt. Whether you are doubting your faith, whether you
Speaker 2: are doubting your future, whether you are doubting yourself, whether
Speaker 2: you are doubting your decision. It is very important in
Speaker 2: your times of doubt that you shrink your circle and
Speaker 2: only talk to people about your doubts who are the
Speaker 2: Lord or who will take them to the Lord with you.
Speaker 2: I need to say that again, because if you start
Speaker 2: talking too much about doubt with people who don't have
Speaker 2: any faith themselves and won't agree with you, it won't
Speaker 2: be long before they will talk you out of believing altogether.
Speaker 2: But I need some people in my life that I
Speaker 2: can talk to and I can say I'm struggling with
Speaker 2: something right now.
Speaker 1: Will you believe with.
Speaker 2: Me that I can get my act together before I
Speaker 2: blow my life up.
Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of shame right now. I'm in
Speaker 1: some patterns right now.
Speaker 2: I don't even like them, but I can't break them.
Speaker 1: Would you pray with me about this?
Speaker 2: Because I don't want to leave my wife and kids,
Speaker 2: but I keep feeling like I don't want to come home,
Speaker 2: and maybe I.
Speaker 1: Can't keep doing this.
Speaker 2: I need some people in my life who will help
Speaker 2: me take my doubts to the Lord. What a friend
Speaker 2: we have in Jesus, all our sin and grief to bear.
Speaker 2: What a privilege to care everything to God in prayer.
Speaker 2: He didn't just ask his disciples, do you think he's
Speaker 2: the one? He said, go ask Jesus directly and ask
Speaker 2: the Lord directly?
Speaker 1: Did I get it wrong? I thought you were the
Speaker 1: one when I baptized you and gave up my ministry
Speaker 1: to follow you.
Speaker 2: But did I get it wrong? Why would you wonder that?
Speaker 2: When you're hearing things so wonderful? And brother Matthew steps
Speaker 2: in to give one little detail that may help us
Speaker 2: to understand.
Speaker 1: In Matthew eleven, Matthew.
Speaker 2: Includes something in his account that Luke left out Matthew eleven,
Speaker 2: verse two, When John, who was in prison heard about
Speaker 2: the deeds of the Messiah. He sent his disciples to
Speaker 2: ask him, are you the one who is to come?
Speaker 2: Or should we expect someone else? Luke tells you what
Speaker 2: he asked, Are you the one? Matthew tells where he
Speaker 2: asked it from prison?
Speaker 1: And now I understand something.
Speaker 2: You can't understand my doubt if you don't understand my dungeon.
Speaker 2: This prison was built by Herod and it was built
Speaker 2: on a mountain cliff.
Speaker 1: And on one.
Speaker 2: Side of the property you had the palace where all
Speaker 2: the parties would happen. And then beneath the palace, carved
Speaker 2: into the cliff, you had a prison. John was a
Speaker 2: desert preacher. He wasn't used to dungeons. He was used
Speaker 2: to open air. And before you judge him for being
Speaker 2: in prison, he was there for preaching.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're wrong because you've sinned.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you end up in a tight space because you
Speaker 2: did something wrong, and hey, there's grace for you there
Speaker 2: when you get it wrong and God shows you that
Speaker 2: you're wrong. By the way, learn to look for God's
Speaker 2: warnings in your life as blessings, not curses. When I
Speaker 2: drive my car and I'm backing it up. Sometimes it
Speaker 2: starts to beep at me, and it kind of annoys
Speaker 2: me that it beeps, But I'm glad that it beeps
Speaker 2: because the beep means that I'm about to back up
Speaker 2: into something. And even if it's annoying, I don't want
Speaker 2: it to go away because it is telling me, hey,
Speaker 2: you might want to slow down. And the faster it beeps,
Speaker 2: the more it means that you need to pay attention
Speaker 2: because there is something, there's something. Touch somebody and say
Speaker 2: the beep is a blessing. That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: The beep is a blessing. When God's spirit convicts you
Speaker 2: of something in your life, that's a blessing, just like
Speaker 2: when He comforts you. When God starts beeping and says,
Speaker 2: don't text them back, When God starts talking to you
Speaker 2: and says you better block them real quick. When God
Speaker 2: starts talking and says, you know, you can't watch seven
Speaker 2: hours of that and then.
Speaker 1: Pray for peace.
Speaker 2: They're all running around on the screen. Everybody's having sex
Speaker 2: with everybody. If they're not having sex with them, they're
Speaker 2: killing them. If they're not killing them, they're cussing them out.
Speaker 1: If they're not costing them out.
Speaker 2: You can't watch seven hours of that and then pray
Speaker 2: for peace. God will say, be back up off of that.
Speaker 2: You don't need all of that. That is not condemnation.
Speaker 2: That is the kindness of God that leads me to
Speaker 2: repent us. And when God shows you something that's wrong
Speaker 2: in your life. I don't know this is four, but
Speaker 2: there's two things. You can repent and redeem. Repent and redeem.
Speaker 2: When God shows you something wrong, Hey, you were harsh.
Speaker 1: How you talk to them? You can repent and redeem.
Speaker 2: You can even open up a door to have another
Speaker 2: conversation about it. When God shows you something, When God
Speaker 2: shows you something that he wants you to change. When
Speaker 2: God says, hey, you got that wrong, God will always
Speaker 2: show you where to repent with the goal of redemption.
Speaker 2: That's the difference between God and Satan. God will take
Speaker 2: you through things and show you what's wrong through reflection.
Speaker 2: That's his tool to bring you to repentance. Repentance is
Speaker 2: his tool to bring you to redemption so that he
Speaker 2: can take what the enemy meant for evil and use
Speaker 2: it for good. The enemy doesn't use reflection. The enemy
Speaker 2: uses regret. That's his weapon and he wants to show
Speaker 2: you not only was it.
Speaker 1: Wrong, but you're wrong.
Speaker 2: In the case of John, he has done nothing wrong,
Speaker 2: only righteous. And Matthew says he was in prison and
Speaker 2: when he heard from prison about the deeds of the Messiah,
Speaker 2: he said, are you the one? Or should we expect
Speaker 2: somewhere else? You know what I think, Church, look at me.
Speaker 2: I think he had been isolated so long. I think
Speaker 2: the prison walls had started to talk to him. I
Speaker 2: think it was clear to him who Jesus was in
Speaker 2: the Jordan, but it was cloudy in the jail. You
Speaker 2: ever had something that was clear to you in one
Speaker 2: moment and cloudy in the next.
Speaker 1: That's John.
Speaker 2: And he's doubting, but he's in a dungeon. And sometimes
Speaker 2: you will judge someone for doubting, but you don't understand
Speaker 2: their dungeon. Yes, Lord, I will preach it to three people,
Speaker 2: three people, because it's hard for me to believe what
Speaker 2: you're saying. When I'm facing bankruptcy and you're saying, Gira,
Speaker 2: you are enough. Jira needs to help me pay off
Speaker 2: my light bill and my gas bill and then it'll
Speaker 2: be enough. It is hard for me to hear you
Speaker 2: talk about second chances. It's even hard for me to
Speaker 2: hear you talk about college when we're trying to have
Speaker 2: a kid, and we've been trying seven years and we
Speaker 2: can't have one. So the truth of the matter is
Speaker 2: you are hearing my declaration through the filter of your dungeon,
Speaker 2: and it can be hard for you to believe, not
Speaker 2: because that you doubt.
Speaker 1: What God can do.
Speaker 2: They were telling him, Jesus is raising the dead, Jesus
Speaker 2: is opening the eyes.
Speaker 3: Of the blood.
Speaker 1: He is doing.
Speaker 2: Miracles and it's amazing. It's not that you doubt what
Speaker 2: God can do. You are wondering why won't He do
Speaker 2: it for you? And this is the tension when I
Speaker 2: say I know that voice, it.
Speaker 1: Is that I heard their testimony.
Speaker 2: But I'm going through my tests and I am hearing
Speaker 2: the party on the hill, But I am not in
Speaker 2: the party in the palace. I'm down here underneath that.
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to recover. I'm still trying to remend
Speaker 2: my relationship with my own daughter. I'm still trying to
Speaker 2: heal from things that happened seven years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm in a dungeon dealing with my doubts.
Speaker 2: So if that is you today and I cannot predict
Speaker 2: who this message might be for, but I want to
Speaker 2: give you three points, and the first one is this,
Speaker 2: Listen to him, not the prison.
Speaker 1: Listen to him not the prison.
Speaker 2: Johnson his disciples to ask, are you the one?
Speaker 1: Or should we look for someone else? And he did
Speaker 1: the right thing.
Speaker 2: You know, because when you try to make sense of
Speaker 2: your situation and isolation.
Speaker 1: You always come to the wrong conclusion. Have you been
Speaker 1: doing that lately? Wave a pinky at me.
Speaker 2: This is when you start letting your situation tell you
Speaker 2: that what you see is all there is. I'm in
Speaker 2: this prison, what you see is all there is. I'm
Speaker 2: alone again on a Friday night. All my friends are
Speaker 2: at the party. What you see is all there is.
Speaker 2: I serve that company for eight years and they just
Speaker 2: let me go. Claude took my job, and now I'm
Speaker 2: out here with no education, and what I see is
Speaker 2: all there is. This is where it's so important that
Speaker 2: you know that voice, yeah, because if you listen to
Speaker 2: your prison in these moments, your faith will die. John
Speaker 2: told his disciples, I've been listening to this prison long enough.
Speaker 1: Go ask Jesus. Hears the spirit of the Lord saying,
Speaker 1: go ask Jesus. He knows the plans he has for you,
Speaker 1: plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to
Speaker 1: give you a hope in the future.
Speaker 2: Go ask Jesus. Don't ask your emotions. If God is
Speaker 2: still with you, your emotions will fluctuate. Your emotions fluctuate
Speaker 2: with your blood sugar. You better go ask Jesus. Don't
Speaker 2: even ask your friends what they think about it.
Speaker 1: When it's really serious. You've got to.
Speaker 2: Have friends, but you've got to have friends who can go.
Speaker 1: With you to Jesus. What do you say about it? Lord,
Speaker 1: I'm going to open my word.
Speaker 2: Come on, I am not going to take what the
Speaker 2: devil is telling me in this prison cell. I am
Speaker 2: not going to believe every thought that I think. I
Speaker 2: am not going to allow myself to believe that just
Speaker 2: because I'm facing resistance, I did something wrong. Can I
Speaker 2: preach about that We think that resistance means we did
Speaker 2: something wrong, as if God speaks something and it's always easy.
Speaker 2: The proof that God speaks it isn't that it's easy.
Speaker 2: It's that He's with me when it gets hard. And
Speaker 2: in fact, sometimes you face the biggest resistance when you
Speaker 2: are in the most significant moments of your life.
Speaker 1: I will prove it to you.
Speaker 2: Last week, I've preached about Jesus in the storm. Do
Speaker 2: you remember that and how he told the disciples to
Speaker 2: get in the boat and go to the other side,
Speaker 2: and he sent them into the wind. Don't you think
Speaker 2: they felt that wind and thought maybe he didn't really
Speaker 2: say go to the other side, maybe he didn't really
Speaker 2: tell us to get in this boat. But actually the
Speaker 2: wind was an indication that there was something so significant
Speaker 2: on the other side of the storm that they had.
Speaker 1: To get to.
Speaker 2: Because resistance is an indication of significance. Let me break
Speaker 2: it down to the smallest level. If a neighbor that
Speaker 2: lives next door to me steals my WiFi, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to resist it. I'm not going to even say
Speaker 2: anything about it.
Speaker 1: That is not a battle worth fighting. It's just my WiFi.
Speaker 2: If they jump on my wifi's signal, I'll probably let
Speaker 2: it go.
Speaker 1: I won't resist it at all.
Speaker 2: If they steal my WiFi, if they steal my wife.
Speaker 1: That's different than my WiFi. Because now we have got
Speaker 1: to access a different part of my anointing.
Speaker 2: And this part of my anointing is the praying part.
Speaker 2: This is the laying on of hands part because you
Speaker 2: can have my WiFi. But my wife is important to
Speaker 2: me and that's worth fighting for. And you can tell
Speaker 2: what's significant to me by what I resist. Has the
Speaker 2: enemy been resisting you? I suggest to you that it
Speaker 2: may be that the favor of God is so strong
Speaker 2: on your life that the enemy knows he has to
Speaker 2: fight you lest you get through this and do something significant.
Speaker 2: I fight for you, girl. She left me this week.
Speaker 2: She just got back from Tanzania. Why are y'all cheer?
Speaker 2: And I was almost I was, I was. I was
Speaker 2: almost through every pack of Ramen noodles I can find
Speaker 2: at the grocery store when she got back. I'll fight
Speaker 2: for my wife because it's the most significant relationship I have.
Speaker 2: And here is John in prison, and I imagine he
Speaker 2: feels like some of us. And the prison walls are saying,
Speaker 2: why is everybody else getting to see the miracles? Why
Speaker 2: is everybody else getting married? Why is everybody else having babies?
Speaker 2: Why is everybody else praising God for their testimony? Why
Speaker 2: did their kids come back home to God and yours didn't?
Speaker 2: Why have they been three years sober and you can't
Speaker 2: make three months? Why has the fight been so strong?
Speaker 2: God hasn't forgotten you, He's favored you. The hand of
Speaker 2: God has always been on your life and is still
Speaker 2: on your life. And I don't listen to prisons.
Speaker 1: I listen to him. How are we doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing all right? Listen to him. What does the
Speaker 2: Lord say? What does he speak about my situation? But
Speaker 2: it's not only John's situation that we've got to understand.
Speaker 1: It's his expectations. It's his expectations.
Speaker 2: See, John was raised in a belief system that said,
Speaker 2: when Messiah comes, he is going to judge our enemies
Speaker 2: and free our people. So here comes Jesus. You got
Speaker 2: to remember John and Jesus had a special relationship. The
Speaker 2: Bible actually says that when Elizabeth, John's mom was pregnant
Speaker 2: and Mary, Jesus's mom, came to visit Elizabeth, her relative,
Speaker 2: when Mary said hello to Elizabeth the baby in Elizabeth's womb,
Speaker 2: John started jumping. John knew Jesus's voice before Jesus was born.
Speaker 2: John started jumping just when Mary said hello. Jesus didn't
Speaker 2: even say hello. Somebody who was carrying Jesus said hello.
Speaker 2: John started jumping. John took a praise break in the
Speaker 2: six month of his mother's pregnancy. When he heard that
Speaker 2: Jesus is here, Jesus is here, Jesus is here, Jesus
Speaker 2: is here, Jesus is here.
Speaker 1: Jesus is here. Jesus is here, Jesus is here. Reach
Speaker 1: out when people say Jesus is here, Jesus is here.
Speaker 1: Jesus is here. Jesus is here.
Speaker 2: And if you know him, it'll make something inside you
Speaker 2: jump when he shows up. Huh, it'll make something inside you.
Speaker 2: Get excited when he shows up. John was excited when
Speaker 2: he saw Jesus, excited enough to say, look the lamb
Speaker 2: of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Speaker 1: But then Jesus starts to do his ministry.
Speaker 2: And remember when John was announcing Jesus in the Jordan,
Speaker 2: give me Matthew three verse twelve again, please, he said,
Speaker 2: His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will
Speaker 2: clear his threshing floor, gathering his weed into the barn
Speaker 2: and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Speaker 1: Yo. John's Jesus was coming with a fork where you
Speaker 1: thresh the wheat.
Speaker 2: And throw it up, and then let the chaff fall
Speaker 2: off and burn in the fire. And John was like,
Speaker 2: that's what Jesus is gonna do to all of you
Speaker 2: who don't believe. You see that chaff in that fire.
Speaker 2: You see that fork. My God is strong and mighty,
Speaker 2: and he bought to burn you. Better turn or burn,
Speaker 2: get right or get left, and get don't to bust
Speaker 2: uss you cuss, don't discuss much. He's gonna burn you
Speaker 2: up in the fire in the fork.
Speaker 1: And then they come to John. They're like, John, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: He's he's opening blind eyes.
Speaker 1: John's like, that's nice, but what about the fork?
Speaker 2: Yes, amazing, man, people who were never able to speak
Speaker 2: are speaking.
Speaker 1: He just loses there. Come in, they're speaking. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's great. But the fire.
Speaker 2: In fact, when they were coming back to John and
Speaker 2: Jesus said, tell them that the blind see, and the
Speaker 2: lame walk, and the mute speak, and the deaf here,
Speaker 2: and the dead live, and the good news has preached.
Speaker 1: To the poor.
Speaker 2: He was quoting Isaiah thirty five and Isaiah sixty one.
Speaker 2: So imagine you're John. Imagine you're John and you're expecting
Speaker 2: a fork in a fire and you're in prison, and
Speaker 2: they come to you and they're like, okay, we got
Speaker 2: a message from Jesus.
Speaker 1: We asked what you told us to ask him, are
Speaker 1: you the one? And John's like, uhuh, what did he say?
Speaker 2: And look at their their report they say, Okay, the
Speaker 2: death here the mute speak, the lame walk, recovery of
Speaker 2: sight to the blind, the dead live, the good news
Speaker 2: has preached to the poor. Now John knows that Jesus
Speaker 2: is quoting Isaiah sixty one the blind received sight.
Speaker 1: Look at this in Isaiah sixty one.
Speaker 2: The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because
Speaker 2: the Lord has annointed me to proclaim good news to
Speaker 2: the poor. Now I gotta slow down and show you this.
Speaker 2: Go back please to Luke chapter seven, when they're telling
Speaker 2: him what Jesus said, or when Jesus is telling them
Speaker 2: the message to take back. Please, John the Baptist sent
Speaker 2: us to ask you the one who is the comers?
Speaker 2: Should we expect someone else? And then Jesus starts talking
Speaker 2: to the messengers.
Speaker 1: Next. First, please, Jesus at that very time was curing
Speaker 1: many diseased, so he replied, we got to get on
Speaker 1: the same page.
Speaker 2: Here, go back and report to John what you have
Speaker 2: seen and heard. The blind received site, the lame walk
Speaker 2: those who have leprosy are cleansed.
Speaker 1: This is Isaiah thirty five.
Speaker 2: The deaf hear, the dead raised, and the good news
Speaker 2: is proclaimed to the poor.
Speaker 1: Go back to Isaiah sixty one.
Speaker 2: See the spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me,
Speaker 2: because the Lord has annoyed me to proclaim good news
Speaker 2: to the poor. So John's like, go ask Jesus that
Speaker 2: I said, are you the one? In other words, he's doubt.
Speaker 2: In other words, are you going to do what I
Speaker 2: expect you to do? So so they said, okay, he
Speaker 2: said the blind the laying the da da da da da.
Speaker 1: And he said that the good news has preached to
Speaker 1: the poor. And John goes, oh, he's quoting Isaiah sixty one.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite scriptures. The good news
Speaker 1: is preached to the poor. And look what comes next.
Speaker 2: He sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to
Speaker 2: proclaim freedom for the captives.
Speaker 1: And release from darkness for the prisoners.
Speaker 2: So John sitting there, He's like, oh, he's about to
Speaker 2: get to the park about freedom for the captives, which
Speaker 2: means he's coming to get me. But what do you
Speaker 2: do when God doesn't say the part you want him
Speaker 2: to say? Because Luke Chapter seven says that Jesus said,
Speaker 2: go tell John that the blind receives sight, the lame walk,
Speaker 2: those who have leprosy or cleansed.
Speaker 1: This is Luke seven twenty two.
Speaker 2: The death here, the dead or race, and the good
Speaker 2: news is proclaimed.
Speaker 1: To the poor. And John's like, yeah, yeah, and bind
Speaker 1: up the.
Speaker 2: Broken heart and set the captors free. Right, But Jesus
Speaker 2: doesn't say that part. What do you do when Jesus
Speaker 2: leaves out the part that you wanted to hear the most,
Speaker 2: because all he said is blessed is anyone who does
Speaker 2: not stumble on account of me? In other words, John,
Speaker 2: I need you to let go of your plan and
Speaker 2: lock into my purpose. I need you to let go
Speaker 2: of what you thought God's speaking to somebody today.
Speaker 1: I need you to let go.
Speaker 2: Of your plan and lock into God's purpose because I'm
Speaker 2: not going to do what you wanted me to do.
Speaker 2: I know you were waiting on a fork. I know
Speaker 2: you were waiting on a fire. I know you were
Speaker 2: waiting on freedom. I know you were waiting on all
Speaker 2: of these things to happen. But John, I need you
Speaker 2: to know that you are some one who is so
Speaker 2: significant that I can trust you enough to leave you
Speaker 2: in that situation. And I know that even if the
Speaker 2: situation doesn't change, even if I don't come when you
Speaker 2: want me to, even if I don't do what you
Speaker 2: want me to, even if I don't answer your prayer
Speaker 2: like I'm answering all of theirs, I know and believe
Speaker 2: that you have the faith to remain even when you
Speaker 2: don't see the release that you're praying for. And so
Speaker 2: John is saying where's the fork, Where's the fire? And
Speaker 2: Jesus is saying, where's the faith. I need you to
Speaker 2: believe about me in this season of your life, that
Speaker 2: I can still do what you knew I could do.
Speaker 1: When you were jumping around before you were born.
Speaker 2: Touch somebody say, I still believe it. I still believe it.
Speaker 2: I still believe I still somebody shouted at the top
Speaker 2: of your lungs, I.
Speaker 1: Still believe where's the fork? You mocking me? I believe
Speaker 1: this stuff. I believe every word of this is true.
Speaker 1: I believe that.
Speaker 2: God can do something even in a dungeon, that all
Speaker 2: the world's powers could not do in a palace.
Speaker 1: I still believe it. I still believe it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get what I wanted when I wanted it,
Speaker 2: but I still believe it. And then the Bible says
Speaker 2: that he turned around to the crowd and begin to
Speaker 2: say about John, what did you go into the wilderness
Speaker 2: to see a reed swayed by the wind?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: John, if not, what did you go out to see
Speaker 2: a man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear
Speaker 2: expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces. But
Speaker 2: what did you go out to see a prophet? Yes,
Speaker 2: I tell you, and more than a prophet.
Speaker 1: Keep going. This is the one about whom it is written.
Speaker 1: I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will
Speaker 1: prepare you're wait before you hold that frame, hold that frame,
Speaker 1: Hold that frame, hold that frame. This is the one.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what Jesus said to John the death
Speaker 2: here the blind see? Do you remember what John asked Jesus?
Speaker 2: Are you the one?
Speaker 1: Look what Jesus said about John? This is the one.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'm trying to say. John stopped believing in Jesus.
Speaker 2: But Jesus never stopped believing in John. And I good
Speaker 2: to know that if I'm faithless, he remains faithful. And
Speaker 2: by the way, John didn't stop believing long The Bible
Speaker 2: records that he was actually willing to give his life
Speaker 2: for Jesus in prison, even when they cut his head off.
Speaker 2: He didn't turn back from what he knew was right.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of faith John had. So Jesus said,
Speaker 2: let me tell you about John, because some people think,
Speaker 2: you know, if.
Speaker 1: You have great faith, God will always give you everything
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: That's one version, but another version says. Another version says
Speaker 2: that God knows that you have the kind of faith
Speaker 2: that can remain and stay and believe and trust even
Speaker 2: if he doesn't meet your expectations. In human relationships, when
Speaker 2: an expectation isn't met, one of two things happen.
Speaker 1: One is it gets filled in that gap and it
Speaker 1: gets filled with grace. You know, hey, you didn't meet
Speaker 1: my expectations, but I understand. The other is it gets
Speaker 1: filled with a grudge. Do you have a grudge against
Speaker 1: God that you haven't mentioned in your heart right now?
Speaker 1: From what he didn't do for you that he wanted
Speaker 1: you wanted him to do.
Speaker 2: He said, I trust John enough that I can give
Speaker 2: him my word and that will be enough.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: I used to think this was the worst prison story
Speaker 2: in the Bible because in Acts chapter sixteen, they sing
Speaker 2: at midnight and the chains come loose and everybody gets free.
Speaker 2: I used to think that Joseph was in prison and
Speaker 2: then he got out of prison because he interpreted a dream.
Speaker 1: I thought that was amazing.
Speaker 2: I thought that when Peter was in prison and the
Speaker 2: angel came and broke his chains off and got him.
Speaker 1: Out, I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 2: But you know what I think was even more amazing
Speaker 2: to me to encourage my faith is that John never
Speaker 2: got out of prison, but his faith never left either,
Speaker 2: even though he doubted.
Speaker 1: You doubt, that's good. Doubt is just a door.
Speaker 2: Doubt is a door that God can come through and
Speaker 2: take you deeper in your faith.
Speaker 1: That's all right. But just John, just John, don't fall away.
Speaker 1: Don't fall away.
Speaker 2: Keep trusting that he is enough even when he doesn't
Speaker 2: do the stuff that you want him to do.
Speaker 1: Because I have learned in my life that it is
Speaker 1: the moments when God does not do what I wanted.
Speaker 2: That my faith really has a chance to demonstrate. With
Speaker 2: your heads bowed and your eyes closed all over this auditorium,
Speaker 2: I have a message today for somebody who thinks I
Speaker 2: got it wrong. You know, God never looks at you
Speaker 2: and thinks, what if I chose the wrong person. Even
Speaker 2: when John was doubting, God still knew.
Speaker 1: That's my man, that's my profit. I can trust him enough. Father.
Speaker 1: My prayer for your people today is that they would
Speaker 1: trust you an that when you do not do the
Speaker 1: thing that they most wanted you to do. And I know, Lord,
Speaker 1: I can feel it.
Speaker 2: Even in this message is a part of me that
Speaker 2: wants to preach. And God's gonna get you out of this.
Speaker 2: And God's gonna come and open the prison doors. And
Speaker 2: I pray that you will do that. But sometimes, God,
Speaker 2: when you allow us to stay in the situation that
Speaker 2: we're in, I believe there is a greater revelation that
Speaker 2: you want to give. So show yourself strong, God, show
Speaker 2: yourself mighty on behalf of your people. Show them a
Speaker 2: level of trust, Show them that you are enough for
Speaker 2: their unmet needs.
Speaker 1: Show them that you are still enough even when they
Speaker 1: feel like they are not. Father.
Speaker 2: Maybe we have the faith like John to say I
Speaker 2: must decrease, you must increase. Everybody stand to your feet
Speaker 2: song that we sing that I want you to sing
Speaker 2: a little differently after hearing this message today, it says
Speaker 2: I trust in God, my savior, the one who will
Speaker 2: never fail. Hey, the fact that he will never fail
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that he always does what I want.
Speaker 1: It means that he promises to be with me right
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. Clap your hands if you
Speaker 1: believe that.
Speaker 5: Put a phrase on this message, and now would you
Speaker 5: lift both of your hands like you're just saying to
Speaker 5: your father.
Speaker 2: I believe that you're the one who will never fail.
Speaker 2: You cannot fail, you cannot lie. Say this, God, I
Speaker 2: know you got me, and I trust you, and I
Speaker 2: trust your timing, and I know your voice, trust your name.
Speaker 2: Can we sing a few lines of that? I trust
Speaker 2: in God, my savior.
Speaker 6: Trust him God, My say, you're the one, Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: who will never.
Speaker 3: Yes, Lord, he will never fail. I trusting God.
Speaker 4: I savedio one wiver, he will ever face.
Speaker 3: I gotta God. Trust in God.
Speaker 4: He's my sayrd one.
Speaker 3: Who will I trust in God? He will live with it.
Speaker 1: So God, I still believe you.
Speaker 2: I believe you're a shepherd who walks with me through
Speaker 2: the valley. Yes, God, somebody say, amen, I still believe you.
Speaker 1: I believe that, even though you.
Speaker 2: Did not meet my expectations, you are worthy of my trust.
Speaker 1: I still believe you.
Speaker 2: I might be going through a medical diagnosis, but I
Speaker 2: still believe you.
Speaker 1: No matter what do doctor say.
Speaker 2: I know the doctor that made the doctor that made
Speaker 2: the doctor.
Speaker 1: I trust in God.
Speaker 2: Somebody's saying, I trust in.
Speaker 3: God as I'm waiting.
Speaker 1: I choose to worship as I'm questioning.
Speaker 3: Our truce is to trust.
Speaker 1: I trust in God's I trusted his word. I'm trusting
Speaker 1: his promise.
Speaker 3: I'm trusting your name. I trusting what's his saying.
Speaker 1: God, You're true and.
Speaker 3: Every man is a liar. I'm trust in God, trusting
Speaker 3: God my sad. Come on, let's trustify the ever mark
Speaker 3: I'm sought love.
Speaker 1: In.
Speaker 3: Look at you. Trust in God's fact, that's.
Speaker 1: Ever.
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